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re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:27 pm Posted by triplate (20745 messages posted) Is there something waiting in the print queue? On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:02 pm, Cai wrote: >Spoolsv.exe in Windows XP is hogging the CPU 100% of the time. System is Duron 1.2Ghz >on Asus A7V with 256MB ram. When I end the spoolsv.exe process, it starts up after >a while though I set the print spooler service under component services to start >manually. Only in "disable" setting can I stop Spoolsv.exe from starting automatically. >Virus and Spybot scan done and system is clean. Microsoft KB does not have anything >on it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:30 pm Posted by Bill (626 messages posted) Dam Triplate your faster than quick Had this problem myself went into control panel, printers sure enough had about 3 items waiting to be printed. deleted them poof no more problems. Bill windowsxpcentral On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:27 pm, triplate wrote: >Is there something waiting in the print queue? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:40 pm Posted by triplate (20745 messages posted) ;)... On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:30 pm, Bill wrote: > >Dam Triplate your faster than quick Had this problem myself went into control panel, >printers sure enough had about 3 items waiting to be printed. deleted them poof no >more problems. Bill windowsxpcentral > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 9:12 pm Posted by Cai (4 messages posted) Hi Bill and Triplate, no queue in printer as each time I turn on the Print Spooler so that I can print, my printer works immediately. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, May 29, 2004 at 6:06 am Posted by coutaspray (1 messages posted) I am having the same problem with spoolsv.exe using max CPU, can't find evidence of trojans. Did you get a fix for this? On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:02 pm, Cai wrote: >Spoolsv.exe in Windows XP is hogging the CPU 100% of the time. System is Duron 1.2Ghz >on Asus A7V with 256MB ram. When I end the spoolsv.exe process, it starts up after >a while though I set the print spooler service under component services to start >manually. Only in "disable" setting can I stop Spoolsv.exe from starting automatically. >Virus and Spybot scan done and system is clean. Microsoft KB does not have anything >on it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:56 am Posted by JGG (2 messages posted) I had this problem on one of our computers. As it turns out, there were print jobs waiting - not on our installed printer - but on Microsoft Image Writer. These print jobs were terminated and all is back to normal. On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:02 pm, Cai wrote: >Spoolsv.exe in Windows XP is hogging the CPU 100% of the time. System is Duron 1.2Ghz >on Asus A7V with 256MB ram. When I end the spoolsv.exe process, it starts up after >a while though I set the print spooler service under component services to start >manually. Only in "disable" setting can I stop Spoolsv.exe from starting automatically. >Virus and Spybot scan done and system is clean. Microsoft KB does not have anything >on it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] spoolsv.exe - solved Tuesday, June 1, 2004 at 7:14 am Posted by Cai (4 messages posted) JJG, thank you. Problem is solved. Do spread the news. I think that there are a lot of people out there having the same problem. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe - solved Friday, June 4, 2004 at 1:31 pm Posted by Jeff (1 messages posted) Spoolsv.exe is taking 100% cpu and I don't have anything in any print spool. Norton Anti-virus shows nothing. Can end process in Task Manager, but restart revives problem. Any suggestions? On Tuesday, June 1, 2004 at 7:14 am, Cai wrote: >JJG, thank you. Problem is solved. Do spread the news. I think that there are a lot >of people out there having the same problem. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe - solved Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 12:46 am Posted by Cai (4 messages posted) Look at JJG response. The files in the print queue is under your Microsoft office document printer. Not your regular printer [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe - solved Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 5:33 am Posted by Winger (3 messages posted) Because I have Norton Antivirus set to do a system scan every Friday night I happened to notice that SPOOLSV.EXE is utilizing nearly 100% CPU in the morning on Saturday. This it the only time it happens, so I simply stop the process in the SERVICES window and life is good. I'm not sure why Norton Antivirus triggers it during the scanning process as I haven't been able to find anything on the Symantec site relating to this. On Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 12:46 am, Cai wrote: >Look at JJG response. The files in the print queue is under your Microsoft office >document printer. Not your regular printer > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe - solved Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 7:32 am Posted by JGG (2 messages posted) Do you also have Norton scheduled to prepare some type of report which it unsuccessfully sends to the spooler? Check the status of all printing devices after this happens to see if some type of job is waiting. This device may not be your printer. Also, do you also have some other action scheduled which is unrelated to your Norton virus scan? You might try changing the night of your scan to see if something else is causing the problem. On Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 5:33 am, Winger wrote: >Because I have Norton Antivirus set to do a system scan every Friday night I happened >to notice that SPOOLSV.EXE is utilizing nearly 100% CPU in the morning on Saturday. >This it the only time it happens, so I simply stop the process in the SERVICES window >and life is good. I'm not sure why Norton Antivirus triggers it during the scanning >process as I haven't been able to find anything on the Symantec site relating to >this. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe - solved Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 8:40 am Posted by Winger (3 messages posted) There are no reports other than the one on-screen indicating my system if virus free. I'll schedule the scan for a different night and see if that makes a difference. It hasn't been that big of a deal so I didn't even think of the obvious. Thanks for the suggestion. >You might try changing the night of your scan to see if >something else is >causing the problem. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Sometimes spoolsv is a virus Friday, June 11, 2004 at 7:10 am Posted by Ray (1 messages posted) Sometime a trojan can mimic spoolsv.exe , here's one example: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.ciadoor.b.html ... so you should check that too ... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Sometimes spoolsv is a virus Monday, June 14, 2004 at 5:56 am Posted by Winger (3 messages posted) Thanks Ray, I checked all the info and none is added to my registry or INI files. It appears that it's just one more weird thing to add to the list regarding Norton Antivirus. On Friday, June 11, 2004 at 7:10 am, Ray wrote: >Sometime a trojan can mimic spoolsv.exe , here's one example: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.ciadoor.b.html > ... so you should check that too ... > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, July 9, 2004 at 11:40 pm Posted by Tomer (1 messages posted) thanks i had 12 items ready to be printed in Microsoft Office Document Image Writer which cause 50% use of CPU in WinXP 2.6 On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:40 pm, triplate wrote: >;)... > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 4:39 am Posted by triplate (20745 messages posted) There ya go... On Friday, July 9, 2004 at 11:40 pm, Tomer wrote: > >thanks i had 12 items ready to be printed in Microsoft Office Document Image Writer >which cause 50% use of CPU in WinXP 2.6 > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 7:51 am Posted by azmeer (1 messages posted) where to find the microsoft office document image writer ? under the microsoft office tools ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, July 15, 2004 at 12:33 pm Posted by kate (1 messages posted) I've had the same problem and it started when I updated those 5 critical updates for XP a couple days ago (July 13, 2004). The stuff waiting to be printed was complete crap that I did not ask to be printed. I deleted everything off the print queues for all printers, but 20-30 minutes later it came back. This has plagued several people I know and it all started with these updates. I also agree with a previous posting that mentions it can happen after I run a Norton/Symantec scan. One person I know fixed the problem by deleting the guest account on XP. I've managed to stop it by unchecking a suspicious blank program in the msconfig startup. New virus or obnoxious defect in XP/Norton? Any other info on this? On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:02 pm, Cai wrote: >Spoolsv.exe in Windows XP is hogging the CPU 100% of the time. System is Duron 1.2Ghz >on Asus A7V with 256MB ram. When I end the spoolsv.exe process, it starts up after >a while though I set the print spooler service under component services to start >manually. Only in "disable" setting can I stop Spoolsv.exe from starting automatically. >Virus and Spybot scan done and system is clean. Microsoft KB does not have anything >on it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, July 23, 2004 at 9:44 pm Posted by Michael (1 messages posted) For some people, if your Cable or DSL provider has a poorly set up network, other people using the same service in your area can inadvertently (or purposefully technically) send documents to YOUR printer which is usually automatically set up as a shared resource in home networks. To fix this, 1) complain to your service provider, 2)go to printers and set your printer to NOT SHARED. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Sunday, August 1, 2004 at 10:38 am Posted by Jerry (1 messages posted) Ok, spoolsv.exe keeps trying to access the network. I don't have Microsoft Office or any kind of printer installed. Where would I find the files that are ready to be spooled and why would spoolsv.exe keep trying to access the internet? I've scanned my system with Nortons, Ad-Aware 6.0, Spybot 1.3 and Spywareblaster 3.2. Everything comes up clean but spoolsv.exe tries to connect to the internet at startup, or at least it did until I installed the ZoneAlarm firewall. On Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:56 am, JGG wrote: >I had this problem on one of our computers. As it turns out, there were print jobs >waiting - not on our installed printer - but on Microsoft Image Writer. These print >jobs were terminated and all is back to normal. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Tuesday, August 3, 2004 at 2:04 am Posted by Tang (1 messages posted) I also very interested to know how to check the MS Office document image writer. Anyone can help to show us how? On Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 7:51 am, azmeer wrote: >where to find the microsoft office document image writer ? under the microsoft office >tools ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, August 13, 2004 at 2:26 am Posted by richard (1 messages posted) I had the same problem and all i had to do was delete the print cue. I still have no idea what Microsoft Office Document Image Writer printer is :P [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, August 13, 2004 at 8:16 pm Posted by Marcus (1 messages posted) I too have the exact same situation, with the only difference being that the spoolsv.exe program doesn't fire up until I try to start NeverWinter Nights, at which point Zone Alarm politely asks if I would like to allow it access to the internet. The interesting thing I've noticed is that the IP address it is trying to dial to is my router's address. I've scanned with Norton, Panda, Adaware, and Spybot and all is clean. So why is this program being so uppity all of a sudden? On Sunday, August 1, 2004 at 10:38 am, Jerry wrote: > >Ok, spoolsv.exe keeps trying to access the network. I don't have Microsoft Office >or any kind of printer installed. Where would I find the files that are ready to >be spooled and why would spoolsv.exe keep trying to access the internet? I've scanned >my system with Nortons, Ad-Aware 6.0, Spybot 1.3 and Spywareblaster 3.2. Everything >comes up clean but spoolsv.exe tries to connect to the internet at startup, or at >least it did until I installed the ZoneAlarm firewall. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Sunday, August 15, 2004 at 4:35 pm Posted by JamBrain (2 messages posted) I have EPSON C84 printer and after installing XP SP2 ver 5.5.1005.0, spoolsv is chewing 90% cpu and 6013 threads. I am running Norton AV 2002 + Internet Security. if I kill proc or stop service Print Spooler then no printing plus can't install software or network connections Any ideas ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 6:57 pm Posted by MorFex (1 messages posted) I just have removed the MS image writer printer, and this problem seemed to be solved On Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:56 am, JGG wrote: >I had this problem on one of our computers. As it turns out, there were print jobs >waiting - not on our installed printer - but on Microsoft Image Writer. These print >jobs were terminated and all is back to normal. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Monday, August 23, 2004 at 12:59 am Posted by tim (1 messages posted) Try this! On Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 6:57 pm, MorFex wrote: >I just have removed the MS image writer printer, and this problem seemed to be solved > > > http://torque.oncloud8.com/archives/000384.html [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, September 3, 2004 at 12:05 pm Posted by Bridge (1 messages posted) OK....where is this Microsoft Office Document Image WRITER. I can find the program but how do I find if there are any files in the que for this program. I can see no prints waiting in my regular network printer. Norton didn't find any virusus. I need help! This is driving me crazy! On Friday, August 13, 2004 at 2:26 am, richard wrote: > >I had the same problem and all i had to do was delete the print cue. I still have >no idea what Microsoft Office Document Image Writer printer is :P [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 9:23 am Posted by pure_corruption (1 messages posted) I had this issue on a 2k box and it was because the person had efax installed and it setup a default printer. Every time they opened a document, the document was trying to figure out how to use the printer causing spoolsv.exe to go to 100%. After changing the default printer it no longer had that issue. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, October 1, 2004 at 8:20 am Posted by Alpha (1 messages posted) you freakin rock! This was killing me, and I never even thought about looking there. Thanks a mil. On Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:56 am, JGG wrote: >I had this problem on one of our computers. As it turns out, there were print jobs >waiting - not on our installed printer - but on Microsoft Image Writer. These print >jobs were terminated and all is back to normal. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 3:19 am Posted by Andy (4 messages posted) Check this out;I haven't even got a printer installed, (recently reinstalled XP - had no call for printer as yet), and I've got spoolsv.exe running in the background! Definately not got a trojan either, as I'm very careful about stuff like that. Not running at 100% CPU, but I suppose every bit of power you can keep in reserve is useful. On Friday, October 1, 2004 at 8:20 am, Alpha wrote: >you freakin rock! This was killing me, and I never even thought about looking there. > Thanks a mil. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 1:18 pm Posted by James Griffith (2 messages posted) I fixed mine if you need help just reply. It all manual though and not very clean but it works. On Friday, September 3, 2004 at 12:05 pm, Bridge wrote: >OK....where is this Microsoft Office Document Image WRITER. I can find the program >but how do I find if there are any files in the que for this program. I can see >no prints waiting in my regular network printer. Norton didn't find any virusus. > I need help! This is driving me crazy! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 11:13 am Posted by sandpiper (1 messages posted) Hello I have had that spoolsv.exe problem for a week now and though I have no files waiting to be printed, the spoolsv starts randomly and each time I get a message from norton telling methere is a W32 Gaobot virus in that file. I have performed about a dozen complete scans with different antivirus programs, incuding specific fix tools from Symantec, and they either don't find that virus or when they do, it comes back within the next few hours. Amazingly, Norton is the one who warns me about it and at the same time, when i scan that file, it says there are no infections...????? On Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 1:18 pm, James Griffith wrote: >I fixed mine if you need help just reply. It all manual though and not very clean >but it works. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 9:23 am Posted by James Griffith (2 messages posted) So if you stop the print spooler in services under Admin tools it just starts up again? What file is the virus in? Can you manually delete the file? Also if you know what your doing in the registry you can look for that file name and delete anything that involves that file if its not important. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make sure you have either a back up or a restore point before you do any of this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The way I got mine to work is stop the spool service, then go to Windows Explorer, C drive (where windows is installed), system32, spool, then deleted everything there that it would let me, then opened regedit and and looked for the name of my printer and deleted eveything for that also. then rebooted, when it came up tried checked to see if i had any problems which i didn't then intalled my printer all went well no problems since. Also i didn't have any viruses either, thats probably another problem. On Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 11:13 am, sandpiper wrote: >Hello >I have had that spoolsv.exe problem for a week now and though I have no files waiting >to be printed, the spoolsv starts randomly and each time I get a message from norton >telling methere is a W32 Gaobot virus in that file. I have performed about a dozen >complete scans with different antivirus programs, incuding specific fix tools from >Symantec, and they either don't find that virus or when they do, it comes back within >the next few hours. Amazingly, Norton is the one who warns me about it and at the >same time, when i scan that file, it says there are no infections...????? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, November 27, 2004 at 9:51 am Posted by Chris Chenet (1 messages posted) I accidentally deleted all versions of spoolsv.exe because one of them was a virus, and now I can't use my printers because of the mistake. Anyone know where I can download spoolsv.exe because I lost my Windows Xp cd. On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:02 pm, Cai wrote: >Spoolsv.exe in Windows XP is hogging the CPU 100% of the time. System is Duron 1.2Ghz >on Asus A7V with 256MB ram. When I end the spoolsv.exe process, it starts up after >a while though I set the print spooler service under component services to start >manually. Only in "disable" setting can I stop Spoolsv.exe from starting automatically. >Virus and Spybot scan done and system is clean. Microsoft KB does not have anything >on it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, December 3, 2004 at 8:59 pm Posted by Eric (1 messages posted) Hell Yeah! I had 4 in the damn image writer....man that sucks. It does not even show up ("as qued") if you are using physical printer as default. *bonk* On Friday, July 9, 2004 at 11:40 pm, Tomer wrote: > >thanks i had 12 items ready to be printed in Microsoft Office Document Image Writer >which cause 50% use of CPU in WinXP 2.6 > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 9:08 am Posted by MrFixIt (12 messages posted) THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!! Basically, go to Control Panel>Printers&Faxes and it should be there (Image writer). Then right click, go Cancel all documents, and then go into sharing and make sure that sharing is not enabled. It worked for me. _0_ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Sunday, December 19, 2004 at 5:52 pm Posted by hellothere (1 messages posted) THanks for all who posted their experience. I have been haunted by the spoosv eating CPU time for quite some time. Initially I suspected some virus as I see network traffic to my router all the time when spoolsv is running. It turned out that I have a PDF "printer," (that is, you can send a MS .doc to this PDF "printer" and generate a .pdf file) and there were 5 jobs in that queue!!! Problem solved after deleting the 5 zombie jobs. Thanks all again. On Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 9:08 am, MrFixIt wrote: >THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!! > >Basically, go to Control Panel>Printers&Faxes and it should be there (Image writer). > >Then right click, go Cancel all documents, and then go into sharing and make sure >that sharing is not enabled. > >It worked for me. _0_ [Reply or follow-up to this message] spoolsv.exe wants access to the internet Monday, December 20, 2004 at 8:01 am Posted by Todd (3 messages posted) Jerry, I don't see an answer to your question, and I have the same one. Today, ZoneAlarm tells me that spoolsv.exe wants access to the internet, destination IP: 63.240.76.4. Why would a print spooler need to go out to the internet? Seems suspicious to me. Not sure about the IP either. Node name is NS6.attbi.com. Maybe it has to do with my ISP (Comcast, formerly AT&T Broadband) and they're checking up on me. I guess I'll deny access and see how it goes. Also, did a search of spoolsv.exe on my pc. Found 4, all off of the Windows directory (running XP) and scanned them all with Norton Antivirus. No viruses found. On Sunday, August 1, 2004 at 10:38 am, Jerry wrote: > >Ok, spoolsv.exe keeps trying to access the network. I don't have Microsoft Office >or any kind of printer installed. Where would I find the files that are ready to >be spooled and why would spoolsv.exe keep trying to access the internet? I've scanned >my system with Nortons, Ad-Aware 6.0, Spybot 1.3 and Spywareblaster 3.2. Everything >comes up clean but spoolsv.exe tries to connect to the internet at startup, or at >least it did until I installed the ZoneAlarm firewall. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 6:45 pm Posted by Brent Ransom (1 messages posted) Wow, thanks so much, everyone! This same thing had me taking my new Notebook PC back to Best Buy thinking my DVD drive was defective. They looked at all the processes running, but failed to see that Spoolsv.exe was taking 99%. When I finally realized that, it sent me here. My print jobs (4) were in the MS Office Document Image Writer queue. On Sunday, December 19, 2004 at 5:52 pm, hellothere wrote: > >THanks for all who posted their experience. I have been haunted by the spoosv eating >CPU time for quite some time. Initially I suspected some virus as I see network >traffic to my router all the time when spoolsv is running. It turned out that I >have a PDF "printer," (that is, you can send a MS .doc to this PDF "printer" and >generate a .pdf file) and there were 5 jobs in that queue!!! Problem solved after >deleting the 5 zombie jobs. > >Thanks all again. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 5:38 am Posted by Dag (1 messages posted) Thousand of thanks for this hint! spoolsv had been taking all my CPU for 2 months, and the solution was so simple! thanks a lot! On Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:56 am, JGG wrote: >I had this problem on one of our computers. As it turns out, there were print jobs >waiting - not on our installed printer - but on Microsoft Image Writer. These print >jobs were terminated and all is back to normal. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at 1:23 pm Posted by Tinky (1 messages posted) Hi Triplate, Thanks for the suggestion, I had the same problem. Does anyone know for what is useful the MS Office Image Writer? On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:27 pm, triplate wrote: >Is there something waiting in the print queue? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% XP Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 1:02 pm Posted by Lucian Silvian (1 messages posted) Hi, Thank you for your recommendation. My image writer was the problem. Once I deleted all the jobs in it the CPU is back to normal. I do not know how I sent a print job to the Image printer but it is fixed. Thanks again, Lucian On Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 9:08 am, MrFixIt wrote: >THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!! > >Basically, go to Control Panel>Printers&Faxes and it should be there (Image writer). > >Then right click, go Cancel all documents, and then go into sharing and make sure >that sharing is not enabled. > >It worked for me. _0_ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe wants access to the internet Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 1:17 pm Posted by Todd (3 messages posted) Well Jerry, nobody has answered our question. But I've denied spoolsv.exe access to the internet for almost a month and haven't found any problems. Still don't know any legitimate reason for it to have internet access though. On Monday, December 20, 2004 at 8:01 am, Todd wrote: >Jerry, I don't see an answer to your question, and I have the same one. Today, ZoneAlarm >tells me that spoolsv.exe wants access to the internet, destination IP: 63.240.76.4. > Why would a print spooler need to go out to the internet? Seems suspicious to me. > Not sure about the IP either. Node name is NS6.attbi.com. Maybe it has to do with >my ISP (Comcast, formerly AT&T Broadband) and they're checking up on me. I guess >I'll deny access and see how it goes. Also, did a search of spoolsv.exe on my pc. >Found 4, all off of the Windows directory (running XP) and scanned them all with >Norton Antivirus. No viruses found. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 8:30 pm Posted by heather (1 messages posted) THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:30 pm, Bill wrote: > >Dam Triplate your faster than quick Had this problem myself went into control panel, >printers sure enough had about 3 items waiting to be printed. deleted them poof no >more problems. Bill windowsxpcentral > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe wants access to the internet Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 8:26 am Posted by Patricia (1 messages posted) I think that the printer "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer" uses the intrenet to send printing capabilities over the internet. Go to: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010771031033.aspx to read up on it. It is very informative. Also you can actually resolve the IP address to a host name by using the ping -a utility in your command prompt window. That is if the ICMP service on your network is not blocked. On Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 1:17 pm, Todd wrote: >Well Jerry, nobody has answered our question. But I've denied spoolsv.exe access >to the internet for almost a month and haven't found any problems. Still don't know >any legitimate reason for it to have internet access though. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe wants access to the internet Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 1:28 pm Posted by Hamburger (1 messages posted) Thanks, I solved my problem by just deleting this damn unusefull "Office Document Image Writer" (that nobody seems to be needing anyhow...) and now my CPU usage dropped from 100% spoolsrv to almost 0 - in other words: I have my PC back again... Better than just deleting a pending document in Office Document Image Writer's print queue, imho... On Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 8:26 am, Patricia wrote: > >I think that the printer "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer" uses the intrenet >to send printing capabilities over the internet. Go to: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010771031033.aspx >to read up on it. It is very informative. Also you can actually resolve the IP >address to a host name by using the ping -a utility in your command prompt window. > That is if the ICMP service on your network is not blocked. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, March 18, 2005 at 1:19 pm Posted by photocycle (2 messages posted) AMD Thunderbird, XP Pro SP2, 1GB ram. I just encountered a similar problem after installing a Lexmark Z515 printer. A job hung in the spool and could not be deleted. I visited Lexmark site and was instructed to enable bi-directional printing. Same, CPU still at 99%. Removed printer software following LExmark instructions. Same thing. Re-booted, same. Re-installed printer, same. Removed printer again, same. Re-booted, same. Removed all printers, same. This computer is 2 1/2 yrs old and never a problem before. I use AdAware spyware detection and AVG virus and Zone Alarm. None indicate a spyware or virus problem or instrusion. I fired off a complaint to Lexmark and will post their response. Until then, I pop up Task Manager and kill the process until I need to print again! Major pain!! Any ideas out there?? On Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 11:13 am, sandpiper wrote: >Hello >I have had that spoolsv.exe problem for a week now and though I have no files waiting >to be printed, the spoolsv starts randomly and each time I get a message from norton >telling methere is a W32 Gaobot virus in that file. I have performed about a dozen >complete scans with different antivirus programs, incuding specific fix tools from >Symantec, and they either don't find that virus or when they do, it comes back within >the next few hours. Amazingly, Norton is the one who warns me about it and at the >same time, when i scan that file, it says there are no infections...????? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Tuesday, March 29, 2005 at 9:45 am Posted by Nathan Best (1 messages posted) I had this same problem with my Lexmark X125 for the last month or so. I tried everything you did (as well as some other suggestions I found on the web), with the same result. Yesterday I uninstalled the printer software (again), rebooted, uninstalled the Microsoft KB887742 update, rebooted, reinstalled my printer software, and everything seems to be working again ... I've been printing for two days now without a problem. Not sure if this will help anyone, but after the headache I've had with it, I HAD to pass it along. On Friday, March 18, 2005 at 1:19 pm, photocycle wrote: >AMD Thunderbird, XP Pro SP2, 1GB ram. I just encountered a similar problem after >installing a Lexmark Z515 printer. A job hung in the spool and could not be deleted. >I visited Lexmark site and was instructed to enable bi-directional printing. Same, >CPU still at 99%. Removed printer software following LExmark instructions. Same thing. >Re-booted, same. Re-installed printer, same. Removed printer again, same. Re-booted, >same. Removed all printers, same. This computer is 2 1/2 yrs old and never a problem >before. I use AdAware spyware detection and AVG virus and Zone Alarm. None indicate >a spyware or virus problem or instrusion. I fired off a complaint to Lexmark and >will post their response. Until then, I pop up Task Manager and kill the process >until I need to print again! Major pain!! Any ideas out there?? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at 2:06 pm Posted by photocycle (2 messages posted) Ok. Here is what I found wrong with my system. I had Adobe Distiller as a printer. While trying to print to the Lexmark, a print job got hung in the print queue because "Enable bidirectional support" was not checked in Printer Properties under the Ports tab for the Lexmark printer. When I uninstalled my Lexmark printer, the hung print job was transfered to Adobe Distiller! Who th' hell would have thought to look there! Anyway, I did, I found it, I deleted it from the queue, removed all printers, including Distiller, re-booted and re-installed my Lexmark and Distiller, re-booted again and all is fine down here in la-la land. On Tuesday, March 29, 2005 at 9:45 am, Nathan Best wrote: >I had this same problem with my Lexmark X125 for the last month or so. I tried everything >you did (as well as some other suggestions I found on the web), with the same result. > >Yesterday I uninstalled the printer software (again), rebooted, uninstalled the Microsoft >KB887742 update, rebooted, reinstalled my printer software, and everything seems >to be working again ... I've been printing for two days now without a problem. > >Not sure if this will help anyone, but after the headache I've had with it, I HAD >to pass it along. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Sunday, April 3, 2005 at 8:42 am Posted by kbussell (1 messages posted) The Fix... Ok, there is some good (and bad) info on these posts. This problem is due to a 'Trojan Horse' virus that will probably not show-up when you do a scan. However, you do not want to simply delete or disable the spoolsv.exe as you will not be able to use your printer without this process. Also, if you have already deleted it trying a quick fix you will need to go to your recycle bin and restore the process. Here is what you do, in two steps: Start=>Run=>regedit Edit=>Find=>backdoor.ciadoor.b.html when this item is found, highlight it by single click and hit the delete key, ok (yes remove the bugger). F3, continue to search the regedit but only one occurance should be found. close all=>reboot Now that you are back and the trojan is cleared out of you registry you will need to clean out your print and image ques. I am using XP, but get to your printer list however... Start=>Control Panel=>Printers and other Hardware=>View Installed Printers or Fax Printers double click on each printer or fax and highlight & delete and documents that may be waiting in the que. You might want to be try rebooting once again, but this is not really necessary. Now you should be fine and the problem should be solved. You can verify this by right clicking your bottom task bar and selecting 'Task Manager'. Look at the middle Performance tab and the CPU utilization should no longer be at or near 100%. On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:02 pm, Cai wrote: >Spoolsv.exe in Windows XP is hogging the CPU 100% of the time. System is Duron 1.2Ghz >on Asus A7V with 256MB ram. When I end the spoolsv.exe process, it starts up after >a while though I set the print spooler service under component services to start >manually. Only in "disable" setting can I stop Spoolsv.exe from starting automatically. >Virus and Spybot scan done and system is clean. Microsoft KB does not have anything >on it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 9:40 am Posted by Rob (1 messages posted) Thanks JGG! I was one step away from formating this computer. You saved me tons of work. On Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:56 am, JGG wrote: >I had this problem on one of our computers. As it turns out, there were print jobs >waiting - not on our installed printer - but on Microsoft Image Writer. These print >jobs were terminated and all is back to normal. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, April 8, 2005 at 4:05 am Posted by maarten (1 messages posted) the problem is that i don't have a printer instaled and i don't know how to remove the spoolsv they say that it is not of a great inportense to my pc butt still it keeps comming back i preformd a search on my pc for"spoolsv" and he found 1 file then i closed the program down in my taskmng and removed the program that i found whit the search a minut later its back working and the program installed it self again and my cpu usage is like 15% of the time on 100% and thats very anoying becous i just cleand out my pc and still..... :@ pleas mail me ====> rammstein0120@hotmail.com many thnx 2 u all On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:27 pm, triplate wrote: Is there something waiting in the print queue? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Monday, April 11, 2005 at 7:46 pm Posted by Mike (1 messages posted) Had similar problem with Windows Task manager showing regular (every 0.5sec) use by spoolsv. Tried some of the virus cleaning options mentioned but to no avail. Finally ran REGMON.EXE which showed that Spoolsv was trying to use an old printer (Xerox C55)on the network. Deleted the network ports ( just the ones referring the old machine) using File > Server Properties. (Note that the printer itself had already been deleted ages ago but the ports remained). Rebooted and no more 100% usage. Mike On Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at 2:06 pm, photocycle wrote: >Ok. Here is what I found wrong with my system. I had Adobe Distiller as a printer. >While trying to print to the Lexmark, a print job got hung in the print queue because >"Enable bidirectional support" was not checked in Printer Properties under the Ports >tab for the Lexmark printer. When I uninstalled my Lexmark printer, the hung print >job was transfered to Adobe Distiller! Who th' hell would have thought to look there! >Anyway, I did, I found it, I deleted it from the queue, removed all printers, including >Distiller, re-booted and re-installed my Lexmark and Distiller, re-booted again and >all is fine down here in la-la land. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, April 16, 2005 at 7:49 am Posted by Allen (2 messages posted) Can someone please answer this question? "where to find the microsoft office document image writer ?" Where is it? Where are the hung up print jobs for Microsoft office document image writer to be found???? Weird that everyone is talking about it, people ask where it is and no one replies. On Tuesday, August 3, 2004 at 2:04 am, Tang wrote: >I also very interested to know how to check the MS Office document image writer. >Anyone can help to show us how? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, April 22, 2005 at 9:27 am Posted by tlince13478 (1 messages posted) In 2000 the spooler file exists in C:\winnt\system32\spool\printers. In XP it should be c:\windows\system32\spool\printers. If there is anything there, stop the spooler service and whack the files. To see if the Microsoft Office Document Imagewriter is there go to start>>settings>>printers. If it's there whack it--but only after you have deleted any spooled jobs (this sometimes causes a hang). On Saturday, April 16, 2005 at 7:49 am, Allen wrote: >Can someone please answer this question? > >"where to find the microsoft office document image writer ?" > >Where is it? Where are the hung up print jobs for Microsoft office document image >writer to be found???? > >Weird that everyone is talking about it, people ask where it is and no one replies. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, April 22, 2005 at 12:54 pm Posted by Allen (2 messages posted) No such directory. Closest is C:\windows\system32\ then no 'printers' folder. or if I try: C:\windows\system\ no 'printers' folder. Just on called NLS and " If it's there whack it" Sorry, don't understand. it what? Delete any files found in that directory? IN more research, here's what I think my problem is from. I have a work PC. It is set up by our all powerfull and knowledgable techs. It has a Corporate version of Norton that expects to retrive updates on a LAN (I'm not on the expected LAN, it is a stand alone at home) it is looking every aprox 3 min for an update. Norton site admits the version (v.7.60. something ) I have has a problem and locks up while doing that. My solution is to drag the box back to work and have them update Norton. The LAN people have latitude on how often it checks. They did not have to select every 200 seconds or so. I used filemon to see the activity and pinned to to Norton then found the info on their site. Again solution is to get my Norton anti-virus updated. On Friday, April 22, 2005 at 9:27 am, tlince13478 wrote: > >In 2000 the spooler file exists in C:\winnt\system32\spool\printers. In XP it should >be c:\windows\system32\spool\printers. If there is anything there, stop the spooler >service and whack the files. To see if the Microsoft Office Document Imagewriter >is there go to start>>settings>>printers. If it's there whack it--but only after >you have deleted any spooled jobs (this sometimes causes a hang). > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Monday, April 25, 2005 at 11:26 am Posted by Hernan (1 messages posted) I have the same problem. I have a pending job in a printer queue, but this printer doesn´t exist any more. I cannot remove the printer because there is a pending job, and I cannot also delete this pending job. It keeps in the "Eliminating" state, but never ends. And when I restart the PC it is again in "Printing" status ... How can I remove this printer ? Any suggestions ? On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:02 pm, Cai wrote: >Spoolsv.exe in Windows XP is hogging the CPU 100% of the time. System is Duron 1.2Ghz >on Asus A7V with 256MB ram. When I end the spoolsv.exe process, it starts up after >a while though I set the print spooler service under component services to start >manually. Only in "disable" setting can I stop Spoolsv.exe from starting automatically. >Virus and Spybot scan done and system is clean. Microsoft KB does not have anything >on it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, June 4, 2005 at 2:33 pm Posted by Joe (1 messages posted) OMG THANK YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH!! ive been with this thing like a month and it was driving me crazy! On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:27 pm, triplate wrote: >Is there something waiting in the print queue? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 9:52 pm Posted by Kray (1 messages posted) OK. I have the same problem as everyone else--my CPU usage is at 100% constantly, but I can't figure out why. I don't have ANY printers/Microsoft Image Writer installed, plus I ran the check to take out the backdoor.ciadoor trojan, but it came up with nothing. So... any advice? On Sunday, April 3, 2005 at 8:42 am, kbussell wrote: >The Fix... >Ok, there is some good (and bad) info on these posts. >This problem is due to a 'Trojan Horse' virus that will probably not show-up when >you do a scan. >However, you do not want to simply delete or disable the spoolsv.exe as you will >not be able to use your printer without this process. Also, if you have already >deleted it trying a quick fix you will need to go to your recycle bin and restore >the process. > >Here is what you do, in two steps: >Start=>Run=>regedit >Edit=>Find=>backdoor.ciadoor.b.html >when this item is found, highlight it by single click and hit the delete key, ok >(yes remove the bugger). >F3, continue to search the regedit but only one occurance should be found. >close all=>reboot > >Now that you are back and the trojan is cleared out of you registry you will need >to clean out your print and image ques. >I am using XP, but get to your printer list however... >Start=>Control Panel=>Printers and other Hardware=>View Installed Printers or Fax >Printers >double click on each printer or fax and highlight & delete and documents that may >be waiting in the que. > >You might want to be try rebooting once again, but this is not really necessary. > >Now you should be fine and the problem should be solved. >You can verify this by right clicking your bottom task bar and selecting 'Task Manager'. >Look at the middle Performance tab and the CPU utilization should no longer be at >or near 100%. > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, July 1, 2005 at 7:27 am Posted by Robert Van Winkle (3 messages posted) i've read this entire thread and haven't been able to solve my problem...my lexmark x75 seems to work fine some times, test pages and word docs come out no problem, but whenever i try to print cd covers (mediaface 4.0), only 1 in 30 will work, and this after several reboots and reconfigs...the other 29 times, the progress box appears, shows 0 %, and stays there, while spoolsv.exe jumps from 1-2 % to 97-99 % usage of my CPU...after waiting an hour at 0 % progress, i cancel the print job, but it doesn't disappear from the print queue, so i can't print anything else and must restart (i encounter this last problem with word and pdf. docs as well)...i've done virus scans, tried regedit, tried stopping spoolsv.exe in admin. tools (sometimes it stops, sometimes it won't stop, sometimes it won't restart, and regardless, i can't print anything without it anyways), and i don't have any other printers installed (i.e. no office writer, as i'm running xp home edition and don't have office installed)...i'm about one week away from chucking this piece of shit printer out the window, so if anyone wants to save me a few hundred bucks, it would be most appreciated. On Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 9:52 pm, Kray wrote: >OK. I have the same problem as everyone else--my CPU usage is at 100% constantly, >but I can't figure out why. I don't have ANY printers/Microsoft Image Writer installed, >plus I ran the check to take out the backdoor.ciadoor trojan, but it came up with >nothing. So... any advice? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, July 1, 2005 at 7:33 pm Posted by elluvatar (1 messages posted) My spoolsv.exe is running at 99%, scanned through using Norton AV 2003, no virus found, check Printers/Faxes in Control Panel, system not responding. End process of spoolsv.exe then access the Printers/Faxes folder again and found no item there??? My god..... and I do not think that I have any print jobs queing around....please help!!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, July 2, 2005 at 12:17 pm Posted by Manuel Robles (1 messages posted) Wow, it actually worked!!!! You're cool man, thanks for sharing. Three print jobs waiting on the Image Writer queue were the problem. Thanks again. Regards, Manuel. On Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:56 am, JGG wrote: >I had this problem on one of our computers. As it turns out, there were print jobs >waiting - not on our installed printer - but on Microsoft Image Writer. These print >jobs were terminated and all is back to normal. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 5:53 pm Posted by John Hall (1 messages posted) Thank you, thank you, thank you. The image writer was causing all the problems on my machine too. Thanks for saving me countless hours. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 5:20 am Posted by JAV (1 messages posted) Thanks man!!!!, image writer eas the problem. On Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 5:53 pm, John Hall wrote: >Thank you, thank you, thank you. The image writer was causing all the problems on >my machine too. Thanks for saving me countless hours. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Monday, October 17, 2005 at 9:10 pm Posted by Taylor (1 messages posted) Ok my CPU is running at 100% and its because of spoolsv.exe. I keep ending the process in the task manager but it comes back. There is a printer that im trying to delete because there is a file thats trying to print that wont delete so i tried deleting the entire printer. I restart and everything but it still wont delete the printer or the document. Its just a normal HP printer. Any ideas? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 6:15 pm Posted by Doug Taylor (1 messages posted) Thanks for the tip. I was suffering the same problem, i.e. spoolsv.exe utilising 97% of the CPU. I also had no jobs in the print queue for my laserjet printer but when I checked the MS Image Writer queue, I found the culprits. Cleared the queue and now everything's back to normal. Thanks heaps!! On Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:56 am, JGG wrote: >I had this problem on one of our computers. As it turns out, there were print jobs >waiting - not on our installed printer - but on Microsoft Image Writer. These print >jobs were terminated and all is back to normal. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at 11:01 pm Posted by earthling (1 messages posted) I have the same problem with Jerry. I did NOT install any printer, so it is IMPOSSIBLE to find Microsoft Image Writer. I've read through all articles in this website, and no one answered the problem I have. People keep saying deleting queues under microsoft image writer, but this is not my case. Finally, I solved the problem by looking at the following website: http://torque.oncloud8.com/archives/000384.html In my case, after I deleted two files 00003.SPL and 00003.SHD under C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS, the CPU usage of spoolsv.exe goes down to 0%. This may not answer Jerry or Todd's problem, but at least it gives solution to those who have spoolsv.exe problem but not install any printer. Hope it helps. On Sunday, August 1, 2004 at 10:38 am, Jerry wrote: > >Ok, spoolsv.exe keeps trying to access the network. I don't have Microsoft Office >or any kind of printer installed. Where would I find the files that are ready to >be spooled and why would spoolsv.exe keep trying to access the internet? I've scanned >my system with Nortons, Ad-Aware 6.0, Spybot 1.3 and Spywareblaster 3.2. Everything >comes up clean but spoolsv.exe tries to connect to the internet at startup, or at >least it did until I installed the ZoneAlarm firewall. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 3:17 am Posted by Phil (1 messages posted) I tried all the suggestions above but nothing worked. The problem only started a couple of weeks ago for me - after I downloaded a windows update (win2k) so I'm pretty sure that caused it. I tried to uninstall some updates to find the culprit, but windows died and I had to use the windows CD to repair windows. It seems like only M$ Office programs cause this problem (notepad was fine) so I downloaded version 2 of Open Office and now I can print word docs from Open Office (right click the word doc, then open with Open Office). I don't know why, it just works. www.openoffice.org [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 8:58 pm Posted by donna (2 messages posted) I, too, have a problem where it looks like spoolsv is showing regular, every 0.4 sec. I am showing 2% usage but what is interesting is that the memory used is going up as I sit here. What is that all about? I noticed a problem while in Word trying to write an essay - I get a pause. When I type the computer is pausing so as to not put any letters down and I have seen the same problem in new emails. It looks like the margin bar keeps popping up when the pause happens also. I am blaming it on the spool but - (throwing hands up) I don't know!! If anyone has seen this...please let me know - it is driving me nutty. I can't type without having to back track and correct what letters were missed during the pauses. I followed JJGs advice and stopped the printer service, etc. etc. and it worked in that my memory usage went from 15,000 down to 3,000 - but...it is back up to 5 thousand as I sit here. (grumble, grumble) On Monday, April 11, 2005 at 7:46 pm, Mike wrote: >Had similar problem with Windows Task manager showing regular (every 0.5sec) use >by spoolsv. Tried some of the virus cleaning options mentioned but to no avail. >Finally ran REGMON.EXE which showed that Spoolsv was trying to use an old printer >(Xerox C55)on the network. Deleted the network ports ( just the ones referring the >old machine) using File > Server Properties. (Note that the printer itself had already >been deleted ages ago but the ports remained). Rebooted and no more 100% usage. >Mike > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 9:18 pm Posted by donna (2 messages posted) SOLVED it. See...that is all it takes, write it down - and ask someone. Shazam, the solution comes to me! "clapping". What happened is - if I go into Control - admin tools - services - and stop the printer spooler system. The pause stops completely. So I reset the spooler (by right clicking on print spooler) and then properties - and I changed it from doing it automatically...to manually. It seems to have worked. On Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 8:58 pm, donna wrote: >I, too, have a problem where it looks like spoolsv is showing regular, every 0.4 >sec. I am showing 2% usage but what is interesting is that the memory used is going >up as I sit here. What is that all about? I noticed a problem while in Word trying >to write an essay - I get a pause. When I type the computer is pausing so as to not >put any letters down and I have seen the same problem in new emails. It looks like >the margin bar keeps popping up when the pause happens also. I am blaming it on >the spool but - (throwing hands up) I don't know!! If anyone has seen this...please >let me know - it is driving me nutty. I can't type without having to back track and >correct what letters were missed during the pauses. I followed JJGs advice and stopped >the printer service, etc. etc. and it worked in that my memory usage went from 15,000 >down to 3,000 - but...it is back up to 5 thousand as I sit here. (grumble, grumble) > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, December 14, 2005 at 3:41 pm Posted by Benjamin (1 messages posted) 1 year later.. this peice of information still comes in handy. Good Job Mate. On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:27 pm, triplate wrote: >Is there something waiting in the print queue? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 7:23 pm Posted by Naushad (1 messages posted) Every time when I start the windows xp machine i get the spoolsv.exe memory display problem and also it make my computer very slow, I try to change or remove the spoolsv.exe from windows/system32 and restart the system but still it regenerate it and back to square. I request for the solution or how to avoid this...? Thanks. On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:02 pm, Cai wrote: >Spoolsv.exe in Windows XP is hogging the CPU 100% of the time. System is Duron 1.2Ghz >on Asus A7V with 256MB ram. When I end the spoolsv.exe process, it starts up after >a while though I set the print spooler service under component services to start >manually. Only in "disable" setting can I stop Spoolsv.exe from starting automatically. >Virus and Spybot scan done and system is clean. Microsoft KB does not have anything >on it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Monday, March 27, 2006 at 6:47 am Posted by Hamid (1 messages posted) great man:) thanks man. image writer sucked:) On Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:56 am, JGG wrote: >I had this problem on one of our computers. As it turns out, there were print jobs >waiting - not on our installed printer - but on Microsoft Image Writer. These print >jobs were terminated and all is back to normal. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe wants access to the internet Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at 12:05 pm Posted by red3deer (1 messages posted) When Zone Alarm started asking to allow spoolsv.exe to access the internet, I went to annoyances.org where I found instructions to look at Start,Settings, Printers and faxes. To my amazement I found that I had a printer installed called PDFConverter. It was set as default printer. I looked up PDFConverter and found that it is a program that costs $30.00. I don't know how it got on my computer. I changed the default printer back to my HP 4L laserjet and now spoolsv.exe doesn't ask Zone Alarm for permission to go on the internet anymore. r3d On Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 1:17 pm, Todd wrote: >Well Jerry, nobody has answered our question. But I've denied spoolsv.exe access >to the internet for almost a month and haven't found any problems. Still don't know >any legitimate reason for it to have internet access though. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 2:05 am Posted by Murugan (1 messages posted) Sir, We have Symantec Antivirus software. Today we have faced the virus problem. In Task Manager 'Spoolsv.exe' was occupied 100% of the tasks and system was halted (or) very slow. It think it may be virus. How to rectify the same. Thanking you regards M. Murugan [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 4:28 pm Posted by hazel (1 messages posted) THANKS! this totally solved my problem IMMEDIATELY! i cant thank you enough!=) On Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:56 am, JGG wrote: >I had this problem on one of our computers. As it turns out, there were print jobs >waiting - not on our installed printer - but on Microsoft Image Writer. These print >jobs were terminated and all is back to normal. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Monday, May 29, 2006 at 8:25 pm Posted by unRheal (3 messages posted) First, read all the messages about how to fix the problem above, then.. Try each solution 1 by 1. If you're still having the problem, please post again explaining what you've tried so far. Cheers On Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 2:05 am, Murugan wrote: >Sir, > >We have Symantec Antivirus software. > >Today we have faced the virus problem. In Task Manager 'Spoolsv.exe' was occupied >100% of the tasks and system was halted (or) very slow. It think it may be virus. > How to rectify the same. > >Thanking you > >regards > >M. Murugan > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 12:31 pm Posted by DUstin (1 messages posted) spoolsv.exe is constantly using about 20-30% of my dual core CPU. The thing is brand new, less than a day old, has nothing whatsoever under the printers or fax in control panel, has nothing in the printer folder in system32, no print tasks waiting on any other computer on my network, used trend micro virus scan, mcafee, spybot, ad-aware, system is clean. One other slightly unrelated detail is that it seems that its always using about 30% of my computers CPU when im doing nothing, if its not all due to the spoolsv.exe (which it often is) its due to csrss.exe On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:02 pm, Cai wrote: >Spoolsv.exe in Windows XP is hogging the CPU 100% of the time. System is Duron 1.2Ghz >on Asus A7V with 256MB ram. When I end the spoolsv.exe process, it starts up after >a while though I set the print spooler service under component services to start >manually. Only in "disable" setting can I stop Spoolsv.exe from starting automatically. >Virus and Spybot scan done and system is clean. Microsoft KB does not have anything >on it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% (THE FIX) Monday, June 5, 2006 at 11:30 am Posted by Rob J (1 messages posted) Here is my problem, same as above, spoolsv.exe running and increasing in size constantly. This FIXED the problem in XP Pro: go into control panel and select printers. choose each individual printer driver and turn off spooling for that printer (most likely the MS Imagewriter). IT'S THAT SIMPLE! Spoolsv.exe will still be running but will stop misbehaving. [Reply or follow-up to this message] cpu usage 100% Friday, June 16, 2006 at 4:23 am Posted by Dog (2 messages posted) hI When i turn on my computer I get on the internet and I start playing.When I start playing it's fast but then after several minutes it starts to lag and the cpu usage goes up to 100%.When I click Process and I see that the image name "System" is over 90.All of my programs are turned off. I scaned the computer but it didn't find anything. I don't know what's going on. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe - solved Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 8:09 am Posted by Brax (1 messages posted) Thanks Winger, I've been having no end of trouble with this spoolsv and it turns out you're right - bloody Norton was to blame; in this case Norton Internet Security 2006 suite running on XP SP2. My symptoms were; any time I opened a print dialog (even if I didn't print anything) the CPU maxed out 100% and I had to kill the spoolsv.exe to stop it. Disabling all the Norton Internet Security services did the trick. Thinking of uninstalling it altogether as I've had nothing but weird issues since putting it on. On Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 5:33 am, Winger wrote: >Because I have Norton Antivirus set to do a system scan every Friday night I happened >to notice that SPOOLSV.EXE is utilizing nearly 100% CPU in the morning on Saturday. >This it the only time it happens, so I simply stop the process in the SERVICES window >and life is good. I'm not sure why Norton Antivirus triggers it during the scanning >process as I haven't been able to find anything on the Symantec site relating to >this. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 10:27 pm Posted by Atul Jain (1 messages posted) Hi, Im facing the same problem that spoolsv.exe eats up 100% of my CPU usage. Ive tried stopping it but it comes back on restating and at times, even without restarting. The problem is, that I cannot even get my printer configure for some reason and there are no documents in my print que... still the problem persists. What to do? It would ne highly appreciate if someone could mail me the resolution at atuljain7 (at) gmail (dot) com On Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 1:18 pm, James Griffith wrote: >I fixed mine if you need help just reply. It all manual though and not very clean >but it works. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Do you have a 20-40% CPU problem and have an NVIDIA graphics card? Sunday, July 2, 2006 at 3:56 pm Posted by Swidge (1 messages posted) If you are experiencing a 20-40% drain with spoolsv.exe involved and are using an NVIDIA graphics card this may well solve your problem. I know it's long but it may be worth it and solved the same problem for me. - I had the exact same problem that DUstin described (see below). My CPU usage was between 30-40% whilst running idle. spoolsv.exe was taking about 20-30%. Csrss.exe was also running high for no apparent reason. My printer spool was empty, and my virus checks had come up negative. I also have a brand new dual core machine. - However I have now solved the problem. I found that the problem actually lay in an NVidia graphics card driver, and this was somehow affecting these other unrelated processes. If you have a process called nvsvc.exe in your task manager and especially if it is showing any CPU activity then this may well be the cause of your problem, as it was for me. - A way to definitively check if this is the source of the drain is to right-click on the 'My Computer' icon and select 'manage' from the drop down list. - Open 'Services and Applications' on the bottom of the left hand list. then click on 'Services'. A list of services that begin when you start your computer is displayed. - Look for 'NVIDIA Display Driver Service'. Double click on this and you are presented with anoher window displaying the service's properties. - Near the bottom of the 'General' tab you should find a section entitled 'Service status:'. It should say 'started'. Now simply click on the 'Stop' button. (Note this is completely reversable if you are worried.) - This will stop the service. Once it has finished stopping the service, it'll probably take a few seconds and will briefly display a progress bar, open the task manager and your CPU usage problem should be gone. Mine was. - If this did not solve your problem, then click on the 'Start' button and the service will start again and I'm sorry that this did not solve your problem. - However, if this did solve your problem, then this shows that there is a problem with part of your NVIDIA driver. - The best move is to download a new driver. Unfortunately I can't help you much there unless your machine was a Dell. If it was, you should be able to find an NVIDIA driver package appropriate to your graphics card available to download on their website. I did this and installed the new drivers. This ended my problem. - If your machine was not a Dell, then you should be able to find a driver package either on the NVIDIA website or on the website of your machine's manufacturer. Installing these driver packages should sove your problem, but I have kept the driver installer in case the problem returns, but it has been working fine for over a week now, I'm just being cautious. - A temporary solution would be to disable the service from starting with your computer by using the drop down menu directly above the 'service status' section of the service properties winow. This will solve your problem but will not fix the problem with the NVIDIA driver. I did this for a couple of days and didn't notice any difference in my graphics card's perforance so I'm not entirely sure what this service spends it's time doing. However the method I've described above solved my problem completely. - If this solved you problem then I'm glad to have helped, if not then I'm sorry I wasted your time and good luck finding a solution to your particular problem. On Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 12:31 pm, DUstin wrote: >spoolsv.exe is constantly using about 20-30% of my dual core CPU. The thing is brand >new, less than a day old, has nothing whatsoever under the printers or fax in control >panel, has nothing in the printer folder in system32, no print tasks waiting on any >other computer on my network, used trend micro virus scan, mcafee, spybot, ad-aware, >system is clean. One other slightly unrelated detail is that it seems that its always >using about 30% of my computers CPU when im doing nothing, if its not all due to >the spoolsv.exe (which it often is) its due to csrss.exe [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Do you have a 20-40% CPU problem and have an NVIDIA graphics card? Monday, July 17, 2006 at 6:42 am Posted by MrTim (2 messages posted) The Nvidia card causes problems with the print spooler, no doubt. Not sure why or which cards specifically. But the major problem with the spooler is unprinted documents. Tim Macking MCSE, MCSA, CCNA [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, August 3, 2006 at 2:47 pm Posted by Kay Ess (1 messages posted) Thank you thank you thank you -- I had this problem today. You've reached two years into the future to solve this problem for me and I'm ever so grateful. Microsoft Office Document Image Writer is evil. Pure evil. There was a pdf file in it queue. As soon as I deleted it the problem was GONE. 0% usage in nanoseconds. Note that the Document Image Writer is not my printer, I have no idea what it is for, actually, but somehow or other a document got in there and was gumming up my whole system. Check your printers in your control panel. I'm guessing that the Document Image Writer is part of XP so it is there whether you know it or not. Good luck! On Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 10:27 pm, Atul Jain wrote: >Hi, >Im facing the same problem that spoolsv.exe eats up 100% of my CPU usage. Ive tried >stopping it but it comes back on restating and at times, even without restarting. >The problem is, that I cannot even get my printer configure for some reason and there >are no documents in my print que... still the problem persists. >What to do? It would ne highly appreciate if someone could mail me the resolution >at atuljain7 (at) gmail (dot) com > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, August 5, 2006 at 7:34 am Posted by X-KYPT (1 messages posted) Hi, I am having the same problem with the spoolsv.exe. I did exactly what you mention and I found one file in the registry and I deleted. However, when I reboot the computer, it is still showing 100% CPU usage. I try every tip that is mention in this forum and my problem is still not resolved. The funny thing is that when I go to the Printers & Fax folder, all the printers icon are flashing and I notices that at the bottom status bar, it kept flashing saying "Finding items...". I was able to bring down the CPU usage by stopping and restarting the Printer Spool from Control Panel ->Admin Tools->Services. This works but when I begin using MS Word or try to print, spoolsv.exe goes back up to 100%. Any suggestion or idea how to fix this problem? Thanks. On Sunday, April 3, 2005 at 8:42 am, kbussell wrote: >The Fix... >Ok, there is some good (and bad) info on these posts. >This problem is due to a 'Trojan Horse' virus that will probably not show-up when >you do a scan. >However, you do not want to simply delete or disable the spoolsv.exe as you will >not be able to use your printer without this process. Also, if you have already >deleted it trying a quick fix you will need to go to your recycle bin and restore >the process. > >Here is what you do, in two steps: >Start=>Run=>regedit >Edit=>Find=>backdoor.ciadoor.b.html >when this item is found, highlight it by single click and hit the delete key, ok >(yes remove the bugger). >F3, continue to search the regedit but only one occurance should be found. >close all=>reboot > >Now that you are back and the trojan is cleared out of you registry you will need >to clean out your print and image ques. >I am using XP, but get to your printer list however... >Start=>Control Panel=>Printers and other Hardware=>View Installed Printers or Fax >Printers >double click on each printer or fax and highlight & delete and documents that may >be waiting in the que. > >You might want to be try rebooting once again, but this is not really necessary. > >Now you should be fine and the problem should be solved. >You can verify this by right clicking your bottom task bar and selecting 'Task Manager'. >Look at the middle Performance tab and the CPU utilization should no longer be at >or near 100%. > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Monday, September 18, 2006 at 10:28 pm Posted by KRISHNA MOHAN (1 messages posted) On Saturday, sep 15, 2006 at 8:02 pm, krishna wrote: >Spoolsv.exe in Windows XP is hogging the CPU 100% of the time. System is Duron 2.5Ghz >on Asus A7V with 128MB ram. When I end the spoolsv.exe process, it starts up after >a while though I set the print spooler service under component services to start >manually. Only in "disable" setting can I stop Spoolsv.exe from starting automatically. >Virus and Spybot scan done and system is clean. Microsoft KB does not have anything >on it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 2:28 am Posted by nickelarse (1 messages posted) Go to control panel, printers and faxes and all your installed printers will be there. I had a print job in the microsoft image writer queue which caused my cpu to sit at 100%. When i ended the spoolsv.exe in task manager my CPU plummeted to 0-2% as it should be. My system was 100% clean, i have Zonealarm security suite and if you know how to use it keeps your computer clean. I deleted the print job from the image writer and i had task manager loaded and the box in the systray went from fully green to empty immediately. Thanks to you guys for identifying the problem. I had no idea that something as trivial as that could spike a system so badly. Thanks again. On Tuesday, August 3, 2004 at 2:04 am, Tang wrote: >I also very interested to know how to check the MS Office document image writer. >Anyone can help to show us how? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 10:40 pm Posted by regniald (1 messages posted) thank you, problem solved. thanks for giving steps. On Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 9:08 am, MrFixIt wrote: >THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!! > >Basically, go to Control Panel>Printers&Faxes and it should be there (Image writer). > >Then right click, go Cancel all documents, and then go into sharing and make sure >that sharing is not enabled. > >It worked for me. _0_ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, October 21, 2006 at 8:31 am Posted by Paul (4 messages posted) I don't have a printer, so why is spoolsv.exe running in Task Manager? (Windows XP SP2, Symantec Antivirus 2006) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 10:27 am Posted by sachin (1 messages posted) I recently had this proble: spoolsv.exe in the task manager was eating upto 99% of my CPU. I am using Windows XP. I figured that there was a job queued up at microsoft office document image writer. Dleteing the job quickly resolved my problem. You can access this by start->control panel -> Printers & other hardwares -> printers and faxes -> microsoft office document image writer. It showed a job queued on it. Right clicking on it will give you option to delete the pending job. On Saturday, April 16, 2005 at 7:49 am, Allen wrote: >Can someone please answer this question? > >"where to find the microsoft office document image writer ?" > >Where is it? Where are the hung up print jobs for Microsoft office document image >writer to be found???? > >Weird that everyone is talking about it, people ask where it is and no one replies. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 2:10 pm Posted by Robert Cheek (OFM Computer Systems) (1 messages posted) I looked through here & didn't see this fix (but I admit I could have overlooked it). I had a problem on a client's pc that the SPOOLSV.EXE process was taking 100% of the CPU. The job was printing to the "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer". The particular client needed this job so I could not simply delete the problem job (something w/their accounting software would not allow them to recreate this print job). What I wound up doing is taking an HP LaserJet 4 & connecting it to the pc's LPT1 port. Then, I changed the Document Image Writer to use the LPT1 port & applied the change. I then opened the print queue & right-clicked on the print job & selected "Restart". The job printed right out on the HPLJ4. Afterward, I changed the printers properties back to it's original port. Hope this info helps others. -Robert. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, December 1, 2006 at 4:55 am Posted by J K (1 messages posted) It is a "printer" in printers & faxes. On Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 10:27 am, sachin wrote: >I recently had this proble: spoolsv.exe in the task manager was eating upto 99% of >my CPU. I am using Windows XP. I figured that there was a job queued up at microsoft >office document image writer. Dleteing the job quickly resolved my problem. You can >access this by start->control panel -> Printers & other hardwares -> printers and >faxes -> microsoft office document image writer. It showed a job queued on it. >Right clicking on it will give you option to delete the pending job. > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Do you have a 20-40% CPU problem and have an NVIDIA graphics card? Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 4:12 am Posted by Brian R (1 messages posted) Swidge, I had almost identical conditions to yourself and also identified NVidia as the problem. Only difference was that the process was called nvsvc32.exe - not sure if that's significant. Regards, Brian. On Sunday, July 2, 2006 at 3:56 pm, Swidge wrote: >If you are experiencing a 20-40% drain with spoolsv.exe involved and are using an >NVIDIA graphics card this may well solve your problem. snip >I found that the problem actually >lay in an NVidia graphics card driver, and this was somehow affecting these other >unrelated processes. If you have a process called nvsvc.exe in your task manager >and especially if it is showing any CPU activity then this may well be the cause >of your problem, as it was for me. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, December 27, 2006 at 6:21 am Posted by yian (1 messages posted) spoolsv.exe consumes 99% of the cpu causing the computer to become very very slow (crashed). 1. No backdoor.ciadoor.html was found in registry. 2. No files in c:\winnt\system32\spool\printers were found 3. Ad-Aware removed some spyware but still problem persists 4. Can't see if print jobs are pending since i cannot open Printer&Faxes when spoolsv.exe is running on 99% cpu usage. I can only kill it from task manager but then nothing is displayed since the spool service is stopped. 5. recreating the spoolsv.exe file after deleting it doesn't work 6. SP2 was been reinstalled I believe there must be a pending job in queue but how can I check that when spoolsv and Printer & Faxes can never work together??? damn! microsoft should do something about that...too many people have this problem for soooo long as I can see...similar problem 2 years ago in Win2K meant reinstallation and this is where I am heading to if I don't get a proper answer... Regards, [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, December 28, 2006 at 10:16 am Posted by unRheal (3 messages posted) It's been a while since I had this problem, so I'm not sure if this was covered... What solved it in the end for me was: http://torque.oncloud8.com/archives/000384.html Which, among other references, (including Microsoft) indicates the spool directory to be: C:\windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS If you see files in there, then they are likely in your print queue... And you could try deleting them. Of course... If you read enough replies here and over there... You'll find that different things solved it for different people... So there's no single fix for everyone. Hope that thelps. Cheers [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Do you have a 20-40% CPU problem and have an NVIDIA graphics card? Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 11:51 am Posted by Darby Shaw (1 messages posted) An excellent totally unobvious soln! Worked like a charm for me on our new dual core Dell d620 with nvidia quadro nvs 110m vid card. Thanks! On Sunday, July 2, 2006 at 3:56 pm, Swidge wrote: >If you are experiencing a 20-40% drain with spoolsv.exe involved and are using an >NVIDIA graphics card this may well solve your problem. I know it's long but it may >be worth it and solved the same problem for me. > - I had the exact same problem that DUstin described (see below). My CPU >usage was between 30-40% whilst running idle. spoolsv.exe was taking about 20-30%. >Csrss.exe was also running high for no apparent reason. My printer spool was empty, >and my virus checks had come up negative. I also have a brand new dual core machine. > - However I have now solved the problem. I found that the problem actually >lay in an NVidia graphics card driver, and this was somehow affecting these other >unrelated processes. If you have a process called nvsvc.exe in your task manager >and especially if it is showing any CPU activity then this may well be the cause >of your problem, as it was for me. > - A way to definitively check if this is the source of the drain is to right-click >on the 'My Computer' icon and select 'manage' from the drop down list. > - Open 'Services and Applications' on the bottom of the left hand list. >then click on 'Services'. >A list of services that begin when you start your computer is displayed. > - Look for 'NVIDIA Display Driver Service'. >Double click on this and you are presented with anoher window displaying the service's >properties. > - Near the bottom of the 'General' tab you should find a section entitled >'Service status:'. It should say 'started'. >Now simply click on the 'Stop' button. (Note this is completely reversable if you >are worried.) > - This will stop the service. Once it has finished stopping the service, >it'll probably take a few seconds and will briefly display a progress bar, open the >task manager and your CPU usage problem should be gone. Mine was. > - If this did not solve your problem, then click on the 'Start' button and >the service will start again and I'm sorry that this did not solve your problem. > - However, if this did solve your problem, then this shows that there is >a problem with part of your NVIDIA driver. > - The best move is to download a new driver. Unfortunately I can't help >you much there unless your machine was a Dell. If it was, you should be able to find >an NVIDIA driver package appropriate to your graphics card available to download >on their website. I did this and installed the new drivers. This ended my problem. > - If your machine was not a Dell, then you should be able to find a driver >package either on the NVIDIA website or on the website of your machine's manufacturer. >Installing these driver packages should sove your problem, but I have kept the driver >installer in case the problem returns, but it has been working fine for over a week >now, I'm just being cautious. > - A temporary solution would be to disable the service from starting with >your computer by using the drop down menu directly above the 'service status' section >of the service properties winow. This will solve your problem but will not fix the >problem with the NVIDIA driver. I did this for a couple of days and didn't notice >any difference in my graphics card's perforance so I'm not entirely sure what this >service spends it's time doing. However the method I've described above solved my >problem completely. > - If this solved you problem then I'm glad to have helped, if not then >I'm sorry I wasted your time and good luck finding a solution to your particular >problem. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 4:05 pm Posted by jenoi (4 messages posted) One of my clients has a tablet pc and his spoolsv keeps hitting 100% when he tries to save a document as a pdf using CUTEpdf. I'm able to stop the service, delete the files from the C:\Windows\System32\Spool\Printers directory, restart the service and get him going again, but it'll just happen again when he uses CUTEpdf. No one else has any problem using CUTEpdf, tons of people in our company use this program. Does anyone have any suggestions? (There are no phantom print jobs in any of the printer queues as is mentioned by so many in this thread). Thanks, [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 1:13 am Posted by Arik (1 messages posted) The major problem for this is that there is print job queing to be print so it cause all the cpu usage to run. Mainly cause by documents converter or viewer such as Adobe and more. "Windows XP" I got it fixed by just go to the control panel. Then open the printers and faxes. U will see how many printer and faxes currently install in your com. Then u can see numbers documents queing right beside the printer icon name. So just cancel the print job and it is done. There is no removal for this to happen so you have to bare with it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 8:02 am Posted by Carl LaFong (1 messages posted) This website claims to have a quick, effective solution. http://torque.oncloud8.com/archives/000384.html I have not tried it out because my interest in the process stems from the fact it attempts to connect to the internet each time I close my connection. In other words, I was not affected by excess CPU use. On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:02 pm, Cai wrote: >Spoolsv.exe in Windows XP is hogging the CPU 100% of the time. System is Duron 1.2Ghz >on Asus A7V with 256MB ram. When I end the spoolsv.exe process, it starts up after >a while though I set the print spooler service under component services to start >manually. Only in "disable" setting can I stop Spoolsv.exe from starting automatically. >Virus and Spybot scan done and system is clean. Microsoft KB does not have anything >on it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Do you have a 20-40% CPU problem and have an NVIDIA graphics card? Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 6:49 am Posted by gdy (1 messages posted) My spoolsv.exe was running at about 26% and your problem led me to solving mine. I had tried changing the printers to print directly to the printer but this had no effect. Then after reading this, I looked at the services and noticed a service running for an Epson POS printer I had been experimenting with. I stopped this service and changed it to manual. The spoolsv.exe problem disappeared. Thanks. On Sunday, July 2, 2006 at 3:56 pm, Swidge wrote: >If you are experiencing a 20-40% drain with spoolsv.exe involved and are using an >NVIDIA graphics card this may well solve your problem. I know it's long but it may >be worth it and solved the same problem for me. > - I had the exact same problem that DUstin described (see below). My CPU >usage was between 30-40% whilst running idle. spoolsv.exe was taking about 20-30%. >Csrss.exe was also running high for no apparent reason. My printer spool was empty, >and my virus checks had come up negative. I also have a brand new dual core machine. > - However I have now solved the problem. I found that the problem actually >lay in an NVidia graphics card driver, and this was somehow affecting these other >unrelated processes. If you have a process called nvsvc.exe in your task manager >and especially if it is showing any CPU activity then this may well be the cause >of your problem, as it was for me. > - A way to definitively check if this is the source of the drain is to right-click >on the 'My Computer' icon and select 'manage' from the drop down list. > - Open 'Services and Applications' on the bottom of the left hand list. >then click on 'Services'. >A list of services that begin when you start your computer is displayed. > - Look for 'NVIDIA Display Driver Service'. >Double click on this and you are presented with anoher window displaying the service's >properties. > - Near the bottom of the 'General' tab you should find a section entitled >'Service status:'. It should say 'started'. >Now simply click on the 'Stop' button. (Note this is completely reversable if you >are worried.) > - This will stop the service. Once it has finished stopping the service, >it'll probably take a few seconds and will briefly display a progress bar, open the >task manager and your CPU usage problem should be gone. Mine was. > - If this did not solve your problem, then click on the 'Start' button and >the service will start again and I'm sorry that this did not solve your problem. > - However, if this did solve your problem, then this shows that there is >a problem with part of your NVIDIA driver. > - The best move is to download a new driver. Unfortunately I can't help >you much there unless your machine was a Dell. If it was, you should be able to find >an NVIDIA driver package appropriate to your graphics card available to download >on their website. I did this and installed the new drivers. This ended my problem. > - If your machine was not a Dell, then you should be able to find a driver >package either on the NVIDIA website or on the website of your machine's manufacturer. >Installing these driver packages should sove your problem, but I have kept the driver >installer in case the problem returns, but it has been working fine for over a week >now, I'm just being cautious. > - A temporary solution would be to disable the service from starting with >your computer by using the drop down menu directly above the 'service status' section >of the service properties winow. This will solve your problem but will not fix the >problem with the NVIDIA driver. I did this for a couple of days and didn't notice >any difference in my graphics card's perforance so I'm not entirely sure what this >service spends it's time doing. However the method I've described above solved my >problem completely. > - If this solved you problem then I'm glad to have helped, if not then >I'm sorry I wasted your time and good luck finding a solution to your particular >problem. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, February 23, 2007 at 9:46 am Posted by Aldous (1 messages posted) Had the same problem, spoolsv.exe hogging 96% of CPU. After checking that no print jobs pending in Printers folder: 1. Right click on My Computer on your Desktop. 2. Click Manage. 3. Click Services and Applications. 4. Click Services. 5. Find Print Spooler. 6. Right Click on Print Spooler. 7. Click Stop. Don't know if it makes a difference, but wait a few seconds or more. 8. Click Start. 9. Check your Task Manager spoolsv.exe should be back to 00. Hope this helps. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Do you have a 20-40% CPU problem and have an NVIDIA graphics card? Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 11:18 am Posted by L Lee (1 messages posted) The problem I'm having is when I end the spoolsv.ese process, because it is consuming 100% of my CPU, I dont have access to my print queues to look for jobs queued up in the Image Writer. If I start the print spooler service again, my computer is not repsonsive to the extent that I cant bring up my printers either. On Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 6:49 am, gdy wrote: >My spoolsv.exe was running at about 26% and your problem led me to solving mine. > I had tried changing the printers to print directly to the printer but this had >no effect. Then after reading this, I looked at the services and noticed a service >running for an Epson POS printer I had been experimenting with. I stopped this service >and changed it to manual. The spoolsv.exe problem disappeared. Thanks. > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 8:27 am Posted by Jiu (1 messages posted) i experienced the SPOOLSV.EXE problem and it was trying to access internet all time. My case is totally not occured from the queuing printing job, as i checked all printer including the MS printer. and if u have the same problem as mine... u can notice in the windows task manager (ctrl+alt+del) in the processes, there is TWO same program running, which is spoolsv.exe from SYSTEM which most of the people here talking about, and another will be SPOOLSV.EXE, under the owner's user name. THAT IS A TROJAN HORSE! I was trying to remove another trojan horse so called regscan.exe which also trouble my CPU usage, so i got a software which also removed this SPOOLSV.EXE.... hope this may help someone here.... here is the website u can download the program and free use for 14days. http://www.superadblocker.com/R/REGSCAN.EXE-5591.html Regards, Jiu On Sunday, April 3, 2005 at 8:42 am, kbussell wrote: >The Fix... >Ok, there is some good (and bad) info on these posts. >This problem is due to a 'Trojan Horse' virus that will probably not show-up when >you do a scan. >However, you do not want to simply delete or disable the spoolsv.exe as you will >not be able to use your printer without this process. Also, if you have already >deleted it trying a quick fix you will need to go to your recycle bin and restore >the process. > >Here is what you do, in two steps: >Start=>Run=>regedit >Edit=>Find=>backdoor.ciadoor.b.html >when this item is found, highlight it by single click and hit the delete key, ok >(yes remove the bugger). >F3, continue to search the regedit but only one occurance should be found. >close all=>reboot > >Now that you are back and the trojan is cleared out of you registry you will need >to clean out your print and image ques. >I am using XP, but get to your printer list however... >Start=>Control Panel=>Printers and other Hardware=>View Installed Printers or Fax >Printers >double click on each printer or fax and highlight & delete and documents that may >be waiting in the que. > >You might want to be try rebooting once again, but this is not really necessary. > >Now you should be fine and the problem should be solved. >You can verify this by right clicking your bottom task bar and selecting 'Task Manager'. >Look at the middle Performance tab and the CPU utilization should no longer be at >or near 100%. > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 1:45 pm Posted by computer vegetable (1 messages posted) I had a similar problem with a 'SerialNumberJob' stuck in a print queue for a printer that was installed to LPT1 while a different printer was actually connected to LPT1. The system started REALLY crawling, and the job couldn't be deleted, and the printer couldn't be deleted. Everything came back to normal when the LPT1 device was unplugged. Suddenly the printer's one job deleted, the printer deleted, and the system was running smooth again. On Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 8:27 am, Jiu wrote: > >i experienced the SPOOLSV.EXE problem and it was trying to access internet all time. >My case is totally not occured from the queuing printing job, as i checked all printer >including the MS printer. and if u have the same problem as mine... u can notice >in the windows task manager (ctrl+alt+del) in the processes, there is TWO same program >running, which is spoolsv.exe from SYSTEM which most of the people here talking about, >and another will be SPOOLSV.EXE, under the owner's user name. THAT IS A TROJAN HORSE! > >I was trying to remove another trojan horse so called regscan.exe which also trouble >my CPU usage, so i got a software which also removed this SPOOLSV.EXE.... hope this >may help someone here.... here is the website u can download the program and free >use for 14days. http://www.superadblocker.com/R/REGSCAN.EXE-5591.html > >Regards, Jiu > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 10:11 am Posted by jack (1 messages posted) W2K OS, I have nothing in the printer folder, nothing in C:\winnt\system32\spool\printers, virus & spyware scans find nothing. I tried a hotfix from MS, which didn't resolve the issue. This pc is on a domain. Any suggestions? On Friday, April 22, 2005 at 9:27 am, tlince13478 wrote: > >In 2000 the spooler file exists in C:\winnt\system32\spool\printers. In XP it should >be c:\windows\system32\spool\printers. If there is anything there, stop the spooler >service and whack the files. To see if the Microsoft Office Document Imagewriter >is there go to start>>settings>>printers. If it's there whack it--but only after >you have deleted any spooled jobs (this sometimes causes a hang). > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 11:03 am Posted by Teresa Svoboda (1 messages posted) I am having this same problem w/ Windows XP. I do not have any print jobs in Image Writer or my main printer (HP 300 series), but when I try to print, my printer goes off line and spoolsv.exe takes up about 95% of the CPU usage. I uninstalled and reinstalled the printer and it worked for a very short time and then started again. Any suggestions? On Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 10:11 am, jack wrote: >W2K OS, I have nothing in the printer folder, nothing in C:\winnt\system32\spool\printers, >virus & spyware scans find nothing. I tried a hotfix from MS, which didn't resolve >the issue. This pc is on a domain. Any suggestions? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe - solved Monday, August 6, 2007 at 10:41 pm Posted by Kannan. C (1 messages posted) how can i solve this problem (spoolsv.exe) On Tuesday, June 1, 2004 at 7:14 am, Cai wrote: >JJG, thank you. Problem is solved. Do spread the news. I think that there are a lot >of people out there having the same problem. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Monday, August 6, 2007 at 11:21 pm Posted by mjerry (1 messages posted) Try This it worked well for me : http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000914.htm On Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 11:03 am, Teresa Svoboda wrote: >I am having this same problem w/ Windows XP. I do not have any print jobs in Image >Writer or my main printer (HP 300 series), but when I try to print, my printer goes >off line and spoolsv.exe takes up about 95% of the CPU usage. I uninstalled and >reinstalled the printer and it worked for a very short time and then started again. > Any suggestions? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 12:32 am Posted by Jol (1 messages posted) Hi all, I also have spoolsv.exe popping up in my task manager and slowing my computer to an almost stand still. I went into Printer and Faxes but no icons came up. I used to have at least one printer there and the PDF maker. Where did they go? When I attempt to re-install it says 'Operation could not be completed. The print spooler service is not running' What have I done and how do I fix it? Thank you. Jol On Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 9:08 am, MrFixIt wrote: >THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!! > >Basically, go to Control Panel>Printers&Faxes and it should be there (Image writer). > >Then right click, go Cancel all documents, and then go into sharing and make sure >that sharing is not enabled. > >It worked for me. _0_ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 5:30 pm Posted by Gazz (1 messages posted) I Believe that if you have ended the spoolsv process it will come up with nothing. You have to access it while the file is still active. It's a lengthy process. Hope it helps On Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 12:32 am, Jol wrote: > >Hi all, > >I also have spoolsv.exe popping up in my task manager and slowing my computer to >an almost stand still. I went into Printer and Faxes but no icons came up. I used >to have at least one printer there and the PDF maker. Where did they go? When I attempt >to re-install it says > >'Operation could not be completed. The print spooler service is not running' > >What have I done and how do I fix it? > >Thank you. > >Jol > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 1:08 pm Posted by Forest (1 messages posted) Ok, my problem is a bit different. I haven't done any updates, and I haven't installed a printer. A few days ago, I noticed that "spoolsv.exe" was at 99 cpu usage. So I looked in the spool file, but there was nothing waiting to be printed. I also don't have MS image writer on my pc. I've done several virus scans, but nothing shows up. Please help. On Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 5:30 pm, Gazz wrote: >I Believe that if you have ended the spoolsv process it will come up with nothing. >You have to access it while the file is still active. It's a lengthy process. Hope >it helps > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 6:07 pm Posted by Salty (1 messages posted) Ok so that how I finally fixed the problem! My situation: ----------------- Computer was working (WinXP Pro SP2) fine till 1 nice day I had 2 move it 2 another location. I unplugged all cables including the printer (Canon PIXMA IP3000, USB cable) & after I moved it I set everything up again. 1 important thing I should mention is I cant remember if I really turned it off or if it was in hibernating status when I put it off the socket (just in case that matters). When I turned it on again I faced the same situation like almost every1 here: System started, then even before all programs were loaded in the tray (Norton AV 2006 & some Widcomm bluetooth software) everything got sooooo slooooooow that even opening the task manager required a waiting of an hour. Then in task manager I also saw this sweet little proggy running which we all here love so much meanwhile, spoolsv.exe, eating up 97%-100% of my CPU. When I was killing it it was trying 2 come back but after enough kills (3-4 times right on the head) finally it was absolutely dead & the computers performance was ok again but now I when I opened "printers & faxes" 2 check the printing queue the folder was freakin empty, as expected. The above situation didnt change even after I also connected the printer & tried it on every single USB, just 2 b sure. I tried everything that is told in this (& other) forum(s) but 1st I couldnt open the "printers & faxes" folder without having 2 kill the spoolsv.exe & 2ndly there werent any files in windows\system32\spool\printers 2 delete. So what do ya do in such a situation? Yep - you get pissed off. How I fixed the problem (while pissed off): ---------------------------------------------------- I was almost thinking 2 format the system & in a last attempt 2 save it I started 2 uninstall some programs I was using frequently 4 text editing etc. (& which I therefore used frequently 2 print documents): 1 - Uninstalled the bluetooth software. Not really a text editor but still, it was my very 1st suspect since the system seemed 2 freeze while starting. Needless 2 say: No success. 2 - Uninstalled Nokia PCSuite. Also not a text editor but it was just a good opportunity 2 get rid of this 1 too since it caused some trouble in the past as well & I was hating it. No success. 3 - Uninstalled Adobe Acrobat (has "PdfMaker" which I use a lot 2 create pdf files & probably I used it also (together with MS Word) b4 I switched off / set the PC 2 hibernate just b4 its transportation). While waiting the system 2 restart I was even ready 2 uninstall MS Office as my suspect No3 but then, hey, windows started, problem was gone! Everything were fast again, spoolsv.exe opened also but runned (& runs till today) with almost 00% CPU & "printers & faxes" could also open finally but most important, I had my printer icons back! So nice 2 see them in there again after 2 weeks, being there close together in the upper left corner of the window & watching so innocent & silent at me, I almost cried :~-D Of course I also printed something 2 test the printer & everything worked fine. So I think if there r no files in windows\system32\spool\printers maybe 1 should think what suspect progs he was working with when the problem 1st occured & if nothing else works even try 2 uninstall them 1 by 1! I know thats an old hat but hey, its the only method that worked 4 me! Good luck 2 everyone & keep smiling!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, October 12, 2007 at 4:04 am Posted by ramesh (2 messages posted) C:\windows\system32\spool\ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% (THE FIX) Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 3:57 pm Posted by Todd (1 messages posted) Yes, But what if you have never installed a printer on your system and have none listed to choose from and still have this ANNOYING problem? On Monday, June 5, 2006 at 11:30 am, Rob J wrote: > > > >Here is my problem, same as above, spoolsv.exe running and increasing in size constantly. > > >This FIXED the problem in XP Pro: > >go into control panel and select printers. >choose each individual printer driver and turn off spooling for that >printer (most likely the MS Imagewriter). > >IT'S THAT SIMPLE! > >Spoolsv.exe will still be running but will stop misbehaving. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, November 2, 2007 at 9:22 am Posted by Charlie (1 messages posted) Found this post on another site...work great so I thought I'd pass it on: -------------------------- tim's journal Figuring out the world... one day at a time. « The Library of Alexandria | Main | The IPIX patent » July 13, 2004 spoolsv.exe hogging 99% of cpu - the fix I came into lab to find the printer printing strange ASCII characters, one line per page, and a basically inoperably slow PC. Checking Task Manager, I found the culprit - one spoolsv.exe at 99% cpu which I killed. About 30 seconds later, the cpu was once again clogged by a revived app. Here's the fix. First, get some breathing room - go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services and stop the Print Spooler. Turn off the printer. Now go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS and delete the files there. I found '00020.SHD' and '00020.SPL'. Now turn your printer back on and restart the service. Check task manager, spoolsv.exe should be at 00%. Whew! Semi-update I'm glad that this post has been of use to you. It drove me crazy too. In my particular case the problems started occuring again after a couple days. This happend because the 'bad' spooler files were coming from another computer on the network. Once that person gave up printing that file, the madness stopped. If you are on your own, chances are it is just a corrupt print file that needs to be cleared out. BTW, if you would like to contribute, one way to do it is to make a link to this page using the keyword 'spoolsv.exe'. Spread the love! spoolsv.exeAlso, if you need inkjet cartridges and toners, checkout Inkblvd. They are having a free shipping promotion on orders On Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 6:07 pm, Salty wrote: >Ok so that how I finally fixed the problem! > >My situation: >----------------- >Computer was working (WinXP Pro SP2) fine till 1 nice day I had 2 move it 2 another >location. I unplugged all cables including the printer (Canon PIXMA IP3000, USB cable) >& after I moved it I set everything up again. 1 important thing I should mention >is I cant remember if I really turned it off or if it was in hibernating status when >I put it off the socket (just in case that matters). > >When I turned it on again I faced the same situation like almost every1 here: System >started, then even before all programs were loaded in the tray (Norton AV 2006 & >some Widcomm bluetooth software) everything got sooooo slooooooow that even opening >the task manager required a waiting of an hour. Then in task manager I also saw this >sweet little proggy running which we all here love so much meanwhile, spoolsv.exe, >eating up 97%-100% of my CPU. When I was killing it it was trying 2 come back but >after enough kills (3-4 times right on the head) finally it was absolutely dead & >the computers performance was ok again but now I when I opened "printers & faxes" >2 check the printing queue the folder was freakin empty, as expected. > >The above situation didnt change even after I also connected the printer & tried >it on every single USB, just 2 b sure. > >I tried everything that is told in this (& other) forum(s) but 1st I couldnt open >the "printers & faxes" folder without having 2 kill the spoolsv.exe & 2ndly there >werent any files in windows\system32\spool\printers 2 delete. > >So what do ya do in such a situation? Yep - you get pissed off. > > >How I fixed the problem (while pissed off): >---------------------------------------------------- >I was almost thinking 2 format the system & in a last attempt 2 save it I started >2 uninstall some programs I was using frequently 4 text editing etc. (& which I therefore >used frequently 2 print documents): > >1 - Uninstalled the bluetooth software. Not really a text editor but still, it was >my very 1st suspect since the system seemed 2 freeze while starting. Needless 2 say: >No success. > >2 - Uninstalled Nokia PCSuite. Also not a text editor but it was just a good opportunity >2 get rid of this 1 too since it caused some trouble in the past as well & I was >hating it. No success. > >3 - Uninstalled Adobe Acrobat (has "PdfMaker" which I use a lot 2 create pdf files >& probably I used it also (together with MS Word) b4 I switched off / set the PC >2 hibernate just b4 its transportation). While waiting the system 2 restart I was >even ready 2 uninstall MS Office as my suspect No3 but then, hey, windows started, >problem was gone! Everything were fast again, spoolsv.exe opened also but runned >(& runs till today) with almost 00% CPU & "printers & faxes" could also open finally >but most important, I had my printer icons back! So nice 2 see them in there again >after 2 weeks, being there close together in the upper left corner of the window >& watching so innocent & silent at me, I almost cried :~-D >Of course I also printed something 2 test the printer & everything worked fine. > >So I think if there r no files in windows\system32\spool\printers maybe 1 should >think what suspect progs he was working with when the problem 1st occured & if nothing >else works even try 2 uninstall them 1 by 1! I know thats an old hat but hey, its >the only method that worked 4 me! > >Good luck 2 everyone & keep smiling!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 6:36 am Posted by Neel (1 messages posted) Under certain circumstances I am still facing this problem. I have an XP machine connected to linksys print server (which is connected to a HP printer) back to back. I am adding network printer on IPP port 631. In one particular IPAddress (192.168.1.1) and port 631 combination, spoolsv.exe hangs. I have done all that is mentioned i.e. deteled files in spool\PRINTERS directory, installed all printer drivers, modified registries as indicated on Microsoft website, even deleted all the printer ports and added them again. Am totally baffled with the problem. Maybe at some time this IP and port combination turned bad but there must be some way to get it back. On Friday, November 2, 2007 at 8:22 am, Charlie wrote: >Found this post on another site...work great so I thought I'd pass it on: >-------------------------- >tim's journal >Figuring out the world... one day at a time. >« The Library of Alexandria | Main | The IPIX patent » >July 13, 2004 >spoolsv.exe hogging 99% of cpu - the fix >I came into lab to find the printer printing strange ASCII characters, one line per >page, and a basically inoperably slow PC. Checking Task Manager, I found the culprit >- one spoolsv.exe at 99% cpu which I killed. About 30 seconds later, the cpu was >once again clogged by a revived app. Here's the fix. First, get some breathing room >- go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services and stop the Print Spooler. >Turn off the printer. Now go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS and delete the >files there. I found '00020.SHD' and '00020.SPL'. Now turn your printer back on and >restart the service. Check task manager, spoolsv.exe should be at 00%. Whew! > >Semi-update >I'm glad that this post has been of use to you. It drove me crazy too. In my particular >case the problems started occuring again after a couple days. This happend because >the 'bad' spooler files were coming from another computer on the network. Once that >person gave up printing that file, the madness stopped. If you are on your own, chances >are it is just a corrupt print file that needs to be cleared out. > >BTW, if you would like to contribute, one way to do it is to make a link to this >page using the keyword 'spoolsv.exe'. Spread the love! > >spoolsv.exeAlso, if >you need inkjet cartridges and toners, checkout Inkblvd. They are having a free shipping >promotion on orders > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% (THE FIX) Friday, December 28, 2007 at 1:36 pm Posted by Mike (1 messages posted) Stopping the printer from sending jobs to the spooler solved my problem. Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 25% (THE FIX) Friday, January 11, 2008 at 2:29 pm Posted by KGeorge (1 messages posted) Greetings, I did not have any printer jobs that were pending and still had this problem. I solved it by looking at my services running and found that "nvsvc32.exe" (Nvidia assistant it said) was running, but consuming only 0.5% or so. When I stopped this service, it stopped the spooler file from taking up my CPU. I set this to manual start and I'm good to go. Been struggling with this for a while and it's nice to see it gone. If you are having a similar problem, I'm betting that there are other services that are not necessary that could affect this as well. Try pecking away at the running services and see if they affect it... Good Luck! K On Friday, December 28, 2007 at 1:36 pm, Mike wrote: >Stopping the printer from sending jobs to the spooler solved my problem. Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, February 9, 2008 at 12:39 pm Posted by Rob (1 messages posted) I've got a similar problem on my XP Pro running HP Omnibook nx6100 laptop. I have a HP8550DN printer on my network, and last weekend this laptop decided that the printer "wasn't there" anymore. I could see the printer's webpage, the management software on the laptop was quite happy working with the printer. I ran a reg clean, just in case there was a problem there. I deleted every printer, and attempted to re-install the driver. It happily installed all of the other printers on machines on our network. But now, when I try to install the HP8550, it just appears to freeze. The spoolsrv process is running at 90+%, the CPU fan has gone into overdrive. If I kill the process, the installation of the printer suddenly appears to be complete - would I like it to be my default printer? I click yes, the next, and up pops an error. IE: it didn't install it. I've run sfc /scannow with no problems reported. I've tried all of the "published" fixes - deleting temporary spool files, etc.. I still can't get this blasted printer re-installed on this laptop. Any ideas? Rob. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 6:58 am Posted by xia (1 messages posted) in my case the image writer printer had pending documents to be printed in queue i deleted them and hurray everything is back to normal with spoolsv.exe showing 0% cpu usage On Saturday, February 9, 2008 at 12:39 pm, Rob wrote: > >I've got a similar problem on my XP Pro running HP Omnibook nx6100 laptop. >I have a HP8550DN printer on my network, and last weekend this laptop decided that >the printer "wasn't there" anymore. I could see the printer's webpage, the management >software on the laptop was quite happy working with the printer. > >I ran a reg clean, just in case there was a problem there. I deleted every printer, >and attempted to re-install the driver. > >It happily installed all of the other printers on machines on our network. But now, >when I try to install the HP8550, it just appears to freeze. The spoolsrv process >is running at 90+%, the CPU fan has gone into overdrive. If I kill the process, the >installation of the printer suddenly appears to be complete - would I like it to >be my default printer? I click yes, the next, and up pops an error. IE: it didn't >install it. > >I've run sfc /scannow with no problems reported. > >I've tried all of the "published" fixes - deleting temporary spool files, etc.. > >I still can't get this blasted printer re-installed on this laptop. > >Any ideas? > >Rob. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Monday, April 14, 2008 at 2:53 pm Posted by Benny (1 messages posted) I found that if you stop the spoolsv.exe process and go into the spool folder, (C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS) delete every thing in that folder and restart spoolsv.exe. That should solve the issue. On Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 6:58 am, xia wrote: >in my case the image writer printer had pending documents to be printed in queue >i deleted them and hurray everything is back to normal with spoolsv.exe showing 0% >cpu usage > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 1:36 am Posted by rambo24 (1 messages posted) Create a .bat file with this: net stop spooler del %systemroot%\system32\spool\PRINTERS\*.* /Q net start spooler exit run bat file and the problem is fixed. Greetins On Monday, April 14, 2008 at 2:53 pm, Benny wrote: >I found that if you stop the spoolsv.exe process and go into the spool folder, (C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS) >delete every thing in that folder and restart spoolsv.exe. That should solve the >issue. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Do you have a 20-40% CPU problem and have an NVIDIA graphics card? Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 6:29 am Posted by forrest (1 messages posted) I had the same problem with my NVidia GeForce 6800 video card driver, namely nvsvc32.exe. The problem started after I upgraded the driver to version 84.30. I stopped the NVidia Service Support program (nvsvc32.exe) and cpu utilization dropped to 1%. Apparently, nvsvc32.exe also caused unrelated processes to run amok namely, "csrss.exe" at 40%+. On Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 4:12 am, Brian R wrote: >Swidge, > >I had almost identical conditions to yourself and also identified NVidia as the problem. >Only difference was that the process was called nvsvc32.exe - not sure if that's >significant. > >Regards, Brian. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Monday, October 13, 2008 at 2:21 am Posted by Mark Puddephatt (1 messages posted) Firstly I find it hilarious that I'm replying to a thread started in 2004 and this issue is still in the wild! I came in to work today with the same problem, one of my CPU's running flat out, spotted spoolsv.exe running hot for the past 63.5 hours! Killed it, but it came back on. I've tried the batch file described here, but it didn't work.. there is nothing in my windows\system32\spool\printers folder at all (incl protected files etc). I can't get to my Printer list any more as explorer won't open unless i kill the spoolsv.exe, then it loads with a blank list of printers... I have both Image Writer and Adobe DPF writer installed so it must be one of these causing the issue I presume.. argh! Meanwhile i've disabled the Print Spooler service, so I won't be able to print any more! On Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 1:36 am, rambo24 wrote: >Create a .bat file with this: > >net stop spooler >del %systemroot%\system32\spool\PRINTERS\*.* /Q >net start spooler >exit > > >run bat file and the problem is fixed. > >Greetins > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 3:11 pm Posted by Artem Russakovskii (1 messages posted) Heh. 2 days ago I started getting the same problems. I just updated to IE 8, so I thought that was the reason. I was trying to troubleshoot remotely every time and nothing worked. 100% CPU on spoolsv.exe and only killing it helped. Well, now that I can see the computer in front of me, the problem is clear. The USB cable is unplugged. Windows, however, seems very confused by the fact. Good luck with your problems. Hope they're fixed just as easily ;) On Monday, October 13, 2008 at 2:21 am, Mark Puddephatt wrote: >Firstly I find it hilarious that I'm replying to a thread started in 2004 and this >issue is still in the wild! > >I came in to work today with the same problem, one of my CPU's running flat out, >spotted spoolsv.exe running hot for the past 63.5 hours! > >Killed it, but it came back on. I've tried the batch file described here, but it >didn't work.. there is nothing in my windows\system32\spool\printers folder at all >(incl protected files etc). > >I can't get to my Printer list any more as explorer won't open unless i kill the >spoolsv.exe, then it loads with a blank list of printers... > >I have both Image Writer and Adobe DPF writer installed so it must be one of these >causing the issue I presume.. argh! > >Meanwhile i've disabled the Print Spooler service, so I won't be able to print any >more! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 8:00 am Posted by GGS (2 messages posted) I was having the same problems with the HP I use at work. Problem was resolved by uninstalling ALL Adobe programs (Acrobat Distiller especially) and then reinstalling. Problem does not exist without the Adobe programs. I found some of this on a couple of programmer's blogs.. On Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 3:11 pm, Artem Russakovskii wrote: >Heh. 2 days ago I started getting the same problems. I just updated to IE 8, so I >thought that was the reason. I was trying to troubleshoot remotely every time and >nothing worked. 100% CPU on spoolsv.exe and only killing it helped. > >Well, now that I can see the computer in front of me, the problem is clear. The USB >cable is unplugged. Windows, however, seems very confused by the fact. > >Good luck with your problems. Hope they're fixed just as easily ;) > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, January 16, 2009 at 10:49 pm Posted by Jason (1 messages posted) I have the spoolsv.exe issue as well. Interestingly I do not have a printer installed, nor have I ever had a printer installed. I did have CutePDF installed. Here is what did not work: * I checked windows/system32/spools/printers - it was empty. * I checked the registry for the ciadoor worm listed above - it was not there. * I checked Control Panel -> Printers and Faxes to see if Microsoft Office Image Writer was the issue - there were no printers listed. * I turned off the Print Spooler service in the Administrative Tools panel, and that seemed to stop it, but I like using CutePDF, so I tried to mess around with other things first. * I uninstalled CutePDF (interestingly, it required me to have the print spooler activated in order to uninstall it). This did not fix the problem - spoolsv.exe returned every time I shut it down and climbed to the top of the list immediately. This tells me that CutePDF is not the issue. * The only other program I have that is capable of writing to PDF is OpenOffice 3.0, which is not even open, let alone printing anything. A "practical fix" is just to turn off the print spooler, then turn it back on whenever you want to use it, but... Isn't there some other way? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 3:45 am Posted by GGS (2 messages posted) The problem with the spoolsv file I had was that ANY program which might use the Distiller file had to be removed (Photoshop, Acrobat, etc) and the computer restarted to insure that the problem would go away. I have reinstalled the Adobe software now, and have no problems at this time. The problem seems to be caused by the distiller itself, but all Adobe files use it, and so, I suspect, do any other programs. The programs do not need to be running for the error to occur. On Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 8:00 am, GGS wrote: >I was having the same problems with the HP I use at work. Problem was resolved by >uninstalling ALL Adobe programs (Acrobat Distiller especially) and then reinstalling. > Problem does not exist without the Adobe programs. I found some of this on a couple >of programmer's blogs.. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 5:29 am Posted by DavidM (2 messages posted) I did all the above. And it didn't work for me. Then i changed the virtual memory from a fixed value to 'managed by system'. And this solved the problem, for me. regards, David [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 5:36 am Posted by DavidM (2 messages posted) nah, sorry, i was to quick... didn't help. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 3:03 pm Posted by Eric Frost (1 messages posted) On Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:56 am, JGG wrote: >I had this problem on one of our computers. As it turns out, there were print jobs >waiting - not on our installed printer - but on Microsoft Image Writer. Thank you this helped me. In my case it was a PDFWriter. I remember the dialog was popped up the other day and I thought it was strange because I didn't think I had tried to print anything to PDF, but maybe I had passed out on the keyboard or something. ;-) Eric http://www.xmlelves.com http://www.infomoving.com [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Friday, July 10, 2009 at 10:35 am Posted by jgarr287 (1 messages posted) That was my issue as well On Sunday, May 30, 2004 at 9:56 am, JGG wrote: >I had this problem on one of our computers. As it turns out, there were print jobs >waiting - not on our installed printer - but on Microsoft Image Writer. These print >jobs were terminated and all is back to normal. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spoolsv.exe CPU usage 100% Duron Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 5:24 am Posted by santosh kulkarni (1 messages posted) Thank u Aldous! This utility solve my problem. On Friday, February 23, 2007 at 9:46 am, Aldous wrote: >Had the same problem, spoolsv.exe hogging 96% of CPU. > >After checking that no print jobs pending in Printers folder: > >1. Right click on My Computer on your Desktop. >2. Click Manage. >3. Click Services and Applications. >4. Click Services. >5. Find Print Spooler. >6. Right Click on Print Spooler. >7. Click Stop. Don't know if it makes a difference, but wait a few seconds or more. > >8. Click Start. >9. Check your Task Manager spoolsv.exe >should be back to 00. > >Hope this helps. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum